Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian May 25, 2021, marked the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis police department. The anniversary sparked protests and vigils nationwide honoring Floyd and those who have lost their lives to gun violence and hate. Throughout the last year and counting, Floyd’s name has become emblematic of the ongoing…
Alexa Villatoro | The Seattle Collegian On Saturday, November 7, the US woke up to find President-elect Joe Biden had narrowly won Nevada and Pennsylvania, making him the winner of the 2020 General Election. Though not yet official, the Biden-Harris presidential victory was called by various news agencies including Associated Press, CNN, and Fox. Seattle, like other cities across the country,…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian The 150 Day March was held to commemorate the 150 days since the first Seattle gatherings in protest of George Floyd’s May 25th murder and general police brutality were held on May 29th. This date also marked what many consider to be the genesis of the uprising of the Black Lives Matter and racial justice…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian Seattle Central College is located in the middle of Capitol Hill, right near Cal Anderson park. Long before the current U.S. presidency, it has been the site of many protests, rallies, drives, and other events. This summer, it directly paralleled CHOP – Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or the swath of land occupied by protestors for…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian On October 3rd, 2020 local artists completed a full-scale revamp of Capitol Hill’s historic “Black Lives Matter” mural, which originally came to be on June 11th, 2020. Its original conception organically arose as a community-led effort at the onset of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), where 16 artists painted their respective styles and collective…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian The Central District, known to locals as the CD, is one of Seattle’s most historically diverse areas. It began as a Jewish neighborhood at the turn of the 20th century, but by the mid 1930s a large Japanese population had begun to call the CD home until executive order 9066 saw that community interned in…